{"id":"RAY1942-007","label":"Lower Thompson bull-roarer","people_or_site":"Lower Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)","country_current":"Canada","historic_region":"Fraser Canyon below Lytton, southern British Columbia","macroregion":"North America / Plateau","local_name":"","source_term":"bull-roarer","source_language":"English","object_description":"A wooden blade, of cedar, whirled on a cord held in the hand.","function_summary":"A cedar bullroarer whirled from the hand, a child's toy.","attestation_type":"ethnographic_attestation","source_key":"ray1942_plateau","source_type":"primary_ethnography","source_url":"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar008-003.pdf","page_or_plate":"printed p. 184, elements 4094-4103","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Fraser Canyon below Lytton, southern British Columbia -- Lower Thompson territory anchor, not a findspot.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"The Thompson River people had two whirling instruments, not one. James Teit knew a disc bored with two holes and set spinning by twisting a doubled cord — a buzzer, worked between the hands. The Lower Thompson of the late 1930s had something else besides: a wooden blade of cedar swung on a cord held in the hand, a child's toy — a true bullroarer. Two different objects among one people, each with its own motion and its own noise.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"play_practical","class_label":"Play / practical","color":"#24766D","is_candidate":false,"flags":["toy_survival"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Verne F. Ray, 'Culture Element Distributions: XXII, Plateau,' Anthropological Records 8:2 (Berkeley, 1942), p. 184, elements 4094-4103","url":"https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar008-003.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260814094023/https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucar008-003.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Verne F. Ray, 'Culture Element Distributions: XXII, Plateau,' Anthropological Records 8:2 (Berkeley, 1942), p. 184, elements 4094-4103","source_display":"Verne F. Ray, 'Culture Element Distributions: XXII, Plateau,' Anthropological Records 8:2 (Berkeley, 1942), p. 184, elements 4094-4103","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A wooden blade, of cedar, whirled on a cord held in the hand.","function_display":"","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"ethnographic attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"lower thompson","display_name":"Lower Thompson bull-roarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/BIRKET1930-001_birket1930-001-natmus-h165.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/BIRKET1930-001_birket1930-001-natmus-h165_thumb.jpg","alt":"A long, notched Chipewyan wooden bullroarer lies with its skin thong looped around a short cross-pin.","credit":"Nationalmuseet, Denmark, H1.65 (object 85119); photograph Mads Kildegaard Nielsen","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0; cropped and rotated from museum photograph","source_page":"https://samlinger.natmus.dk/es/object/85119","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"Chipewyan notched wooden slab on a skin thong","pool_id":"auto-BIRKET1930-001_birket1930-001-natmus-h165"},"slug":"ray1942-007-lower-thompson-nlaka-pamux"}